c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
"Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable." — Leo Rosten
"The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever." — James A. Baldwin
"When I was almost 13 I was ripe for religion. I was actually just plain ripe." — Kathie Lee Gifford
"As state leaders, I think its important for us to provide our perspectives on issues we face every day - like access to school spending, access to health care and governing in a global economy." — Bill Richardson
"You have to look at history as an evolution of society." — Jean Chretien
"Finding that balance between work and family is the hardest thing I've ever done - by far." — Gwen Stefani
"What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom 'to' and freedom 'from.'" — Marilyn vos Savant
"There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons." — Edwin Lutyens
"Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves." — Charlotte Bronte
"It isn't false modesty when I say this, but although I am supposed to be a famous person it doesn't mean anything to me. I just sit at home and work." — Gyorgy Legeti
"The lunch in a normal American restaurant is very problematic for me. I don't like to have hot food for lunch." — Larry David
"Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt." — Henrik Ibsen
"I have never wanted to be famous, as such - fame is a by-product." — Steve Coogan
"Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast." — Joan of Arc
"In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible." — Marcus Tullius Cicero
"The unexamined life is not worth living." — Socrates
"Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education." — Henry Adams
"The most boring scenes are the scenes where a character is alone." — Chuck Palahniuk
"A blank wall of social and professional antagonism faces the woman physician that forms a situation of singular and painful loneliness, leaving her without support, respect or professional counsel." — Elizabeth Blackwell
"The first wealth is health." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"You have many years ahead of you to create the dreams that we can't even imagine dreaming. You have done more for the collective unconscious of this planet than you will ever know." — Steven Spielberg
"Part of the problem is when we bring in a new technology we expect it to be perfect in a way that we don't expect the world that we're familiar with to be perfect." — Esther Dyson
"Now, if you're Al Gore, you can afford $10 a pop for squiggly-pig-tailed fluorescent light bulbs. But if you're mainstream America, two or three kids, mom and dad working outside the home, that's not a very good deal." — Joe Barton
"Everything is just better in California - the wine, the food, fruits and vegetables, the comforts of living. Even the instrumentalists are generous and curious. Everything is wonderful." — Beth Anderson
"With paper printed books, you have certain freedoms. You can acquire the book anonymously by paying cash, which is the way I always buy books. I never use a credit card. I don't identify to any database when I buy books. Amazon takes away that freedom." — Richard Stallman
"I don't know if you can change things, but it's a drop in the ocean." — Julie Walters
"AP promoted me to the White House beat because I knew Clinton, his family, friends, and staff better than anybody in the national press corps. Those contacts helped me break a few stories and get my career in Washington jump-started." — Ron Fournier
"Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent." — Sophia Loren
"It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow." — Calvin Coolidge
"I'm certainly not the first person to be in a relationship with a younger man, but somehow I was plucked out as a bit of a poster girl." — Demi Moore
"Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience." — Francis Bacon
"Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change." — Alfred Lord Tennyson
"Nobody under the sun was like Madonna. She was positive and clear and wholly dedicated to achieving everything that she's achieved." — Nile Rodgers
"It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace." — George Bernard Shaw
"Law describes the way things would work if men were angels." — Christopher Dawson
"My memories are of my dad taking me to football on Saturday mornings, and my mum taking me swimming. Those are the things I remember from my childhood, not sitting around the table debating capitalism and the profit squeeze." — David Miliband
"Anyone who saw Nagasaki would suddenly realize that they'd been kept in the dark by the United States government as to what atomic bombs can do." — Lawrence Ferlinghetti
"I am a filmmaker. That is all I've ever been. You know, Martin Scorsese makes films about the mob. And I make movies about food." — Alton Brown
"Attachment parenting is not a passive parenting style." — Mayim Bialik
"From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots." — Mikhail Bakunin
"Buddhism has a very beautiful teaching that says the worst thing you can do to your soul is to tell someone their faith is wrong." — Ricky Martin
"Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country." — Anais Nin
"I just travel all the time. And I was just looking at the schedules now and starting the first week of October I will be every weekend with somebody at tournaments through Christmas. So it gets very difficult to just go away and not do that." — Ivan Lendl
"There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future. The scale of the technology and infrastructure that must be built is unprecedented, and we believe this is the most important problem we can focus on." — Mark Zuckerberg
"Basically, women have to prove they are strong at all times. And then when they go on the attack, they have to not appear mean because those women often get the label of being catty." — Julie Nixon Eisenhower
"I've never stopped learning." — Mick Taylor
"Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two." — Octavio Paz
"In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances." — Herbert Spencer
"Beauty, more than bitterness, makes the heart break." — Sara Teasdale
"Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them." — Dorothy Day
"Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza." — Franz Kafka
"If you get a diagnosis, get on a therapy, keep a good attitude and keep your sense of humor." — Teri Garr
"When everything happens to you when you're so young, you're very lucky, but by the same token, you're never going to have that same feeling again. The first time anything happens to you - your first love, your first success - the second one is never the same." — Lauren Bacall
"The year most of my high school friends and I got our driver's permits, the coolest thing one could do was stand outside after school and twirl one's car keys like a lifeguard whistle. That jingling sound meant freedom and power." — Sloane Crosley
"With courage and character, American soldiers continue to put themselves on the line to defend our freedom, and so many have paid the ultimate sacrifice." — Dan Lipinski
"The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement." — Anna Garlin Spencer
"You should be able to voice your opinion and respect the voice of the other side. You should be willing to educate yourself and know what it is you're dealing with." — Steve Nash
"The hope and change the Democrats had in mind was nothing more than a retread of the failed and discredited socialist policies that have been the enemy of freedom for centuries all over the world. I fear America is teetering towards tyranny." — Jim DeMint
"What's so touching is the way we fight the war right until the moment our business is taken care of and then we turn on a dime and we immediately start taking care of people. It's like a shock and aw shucks campaign." — Dennis Miller
"Since the goal of my programs is to show audiences how humor can both help them heal as well as deal with not-so-funny stuff, I decided to discuss the events of the previous week, the pain all of us were feeling, and how humor and some laughter might be beneficial." — Allen Klein
"To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us." — William Hazlitt
"There must be people who remember World War II and the Holocaust who can help us get out of this rut." — Martin Scorsese
"True nobility is exempt from fear." — Marcus Tullius Cicero
"I've never mentioned this, but when I was at Parsons teaching, the other design disciplines, they don't like fashion design. They see it as very nineteenth-century." — Tim Gunn
"Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it." — Pope John Paul II
"It's time to say goodbye, but I think goodbyes are sad and I'd much rather say hello. Hello to a new adventure." — Ernie Harwell
"The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the curiosity or discipline... because you need to be alone to find out anything." — Vivienne Westwood
"When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you." — Susan Sarandon
"Everything that goes up must come down. But there comes a time when not everything that's down can come up." — George Burns
"Most of the musicians that I know almost to the man everybody uses Apple computers. They've thought of the steps that you're going to think of when you're trying to create your thing. And that's where the tools get invented to make better art." — Mike Shinoda
"You look at the greatest villains in human history, the fascists, the autocrats, they all wanted people to kneel before them because they don't love themselves enough." — Tom Hiddleston
"The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectator's place and laugh at his own misfortune." — Bert Williams
"Never be in a hurry do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset." — Saint Francis de Sales
"In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends." — Lucy Maud Montgomery
"For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end." — H. L. Mencken
"I will check the internet for at least an hour every morning scanning worldwide news to do with child abuse. So if you're constantly putting yourself in an environment where you're checking up on social economics or homelessness problems, if you keep yourself aware of it, you don't really have a day off." — Samantha Morton
"There are many victories worse than a defeat." — George Eliot
"The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home." — David Herbert Lawrence
"I think Paul Newman had an amazing career. I also love what Tom Hanks has done. He has always made very grounded movies that have something to say. He has found a way to make blockbusters that are about something and that is what I want to do." — Josh Duhamel
"I don't care how pumped up or psyched you are to start a new diet or a new program - that emotion will fade." — Phil McGraw
"Every move we make in fear of the next war in fact hastens it." — Gregory Bateson
"I don't think the competition's so rough, within the majority of movies made in Hollywood." — Paul Thomas Anderson
"Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death." — Albert Camus
"I think there is a tendency in science to measure what is measurable and to decide that what you cannot measure must be uninteresting." — Donald Norman
"In mainstream romantic comedies, I'm usually tearing my hair out. It's just a devastatingly difficult genre for me." — Carter Burwell
"A peace deal requires agreements, and you don't make agreements with your friends, you make agreements with your enemies." — Richard Holbrooke
"Come Christmas Eve, we usually go to my mom and dad's. Everybody brings one gift and then we play that game when we all steal it from each other. Some are really cool, others are useful and some are a bit out there." — Amy Grant
"Leftism seeks to undo most of the values that are distinct to Judeo-Christian religion." — Dennis Prager
"Those who love him love that he sells the most art they take it as a point of faith that this proves Kinkade is the best. But his fans don't only rely on this supply-and-demand justification. They go back to values." — Jerry Saltz
"Faith is the substance of hope - of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen. So if you can hope for it and imagine it, and keep imagining and hoping and seeing yourself driving a new car, or seeing yourself getting that job, or seeing yourself excel, seeing yourself help that person - that is faith." — Duane Chapman
"If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life." — Henry David Thoreau
"I've always felt toward the slightest scene, even if all I had to do in a scene was just to come in and say, 'Hi,' that the people ought to get their money's worth and that this is an obligation of mine, to give them the best you can get from me." — Marilyn Monroe
"When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places." — John Cheever
"Woz is living his own life now. He hasn't been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down in history." — Steve Jobs
"Well in the end the world can crank itself up to sanctions, as it has with Zimbabwe, another sad case." — Helen Clark
"People are not perfect... very often the relationships that are strongest are those where people have worked through big crises, but they've had to work through them. So the challenge to us is to work through that." — Patricia Hewitt
"A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother's love." — Thomas Chandler Haliburton
"When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough." — Ayrton Senna
"As for the forces, electromagnetism and gravity we experience in everyday life. But the weak and strong forces are beyond our ordinary experience. So in physics, lots of the basic building blocks take 20th- or perhaps 21st-century equipment to explore." — Edward Witten
"Bad things do happen how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself." — Walter Anderson
"You know, I started my career in politics in 1967. I'm not new to this. I did not just fall off the Christmas tree. I understand the world is complex. I know that there are people out there who want to hurt other people." — Dennis Kucinich
"I like photographs which leave something to the imagination." — Fay Godwin
"Am I athletic? In my dreams." — Hugh Bonneville
"Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree." — T. S. Eliot
"I think that the problem is that people fear so many things and they don't live life to its fullest. And for me as an artist, if God should want me to come this Wednesday to the end of my life, so be it." — Criss Angel
"We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams." — Jimmy Carter
"The Islam of the 18th, 19th and first half of the 20th century was a poor thing. Nobody bothered about it. Islam was that funny sort of pure system of beliefs that depressed people in the Middle East held as their religion." — John Keegan
"Women's sports is still in its infancy. The beginning of women's sports in the United States started in 1972, with the passage of Title 9 for girls to finally get athletic scholarships." — Billie Jean King
"Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times." — Niccolo Machiavelli
"My whole family is very sarcastic and constantly making jokes." — Emily Deschanel
"If we eat any food, or drink any beverage, we must recite a blessing over them before and after." — Shmuel Y. Agnon
"Half a century ago, the amazing courage of Rosa Parks, the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King, and the inspirational actions of the civil rights movement led politicians to write equality into the law and make real the promise of America for all her citizens." — David Cameron
"A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside." — Denis Waitley
"I believe this with all my heart: The greatest coach of all time in my eyes is my mom. She's instilled in me a toughness and a perseverance and just a never-quit mentality, and I thank her every day for providing me, for what she sacrificed her life for." — Scott Brooks
"Knowledge is going to make you stronger. Knowledge is going to let you control your life. Knowledge is going to give you the wisdom to teach their children. Knowledge is the thing that makes you smile in the face of disaster." — Avery Brooks
"However, there is no legal and legitimate state called Israel." — Hassan Nasrallah
"I think being a wealthy member of the establishment is the antithesis of cool. Being a countercultural revolutionary is cool. So to the extent that you've made a billion dollars, you've probably become uncool." — Sean Parker
"I can't imagine anything more worthwhile than doing what I most love. And they pay me for it." — Edgar Winter
"When I write stuff and I help cast it, I turn away good people all the time. I may turn them down because this one's too tall and that one doesn't have a high enough voice or this one looks to old to match up with that one - there's a billion reasons not to hire somebody." — Harvey Fierstein
"I desire an special interest in your prayers that my faith fail not in the day of adversity." — John Hawley
"Nature is the art of God." — Dante Alighieri
"I'm learning Spanish - I got Rosetta Stone for Christmas." — Karlie Kloss
"I'm really not interested in other people's opinions, because I think frankly most of those opinions are either misinformed and adding to this endless ball of hot air we have in our society where everyone thinks their opinion is valuable and sacred and what counts." — H. G. Bissinger
"Perhaps religious conscience upsets the designs of those who feel that the highest wisdom and authority comes from government. But from the beginning, this nation trusted in God, not man. Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution." — Mitt Romney
"People ask me how I keep my figure, and I tell them it's because I paint. When you're covered in paint, it's quite hard to put food in your mouth!" — Jane Seymour
"Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness." — Aleister Crowley
"I enjoy being busy, I really do. Remember, I'm the stub end of the railroad. I have no family, so I'm not taking busy time away from people that I should be spending it with. So I'm just relaxing and enjoying it." — Betty White
"I'm enjoying dating. I'm single, though, I'm not in a relationship." — Matt Czuchry
"Film is a very young art that is still evolving. Soon, we shall reach a balance between content and technology." — Catherine Deneuve
"I'm just not a natural teacher." — David Benioff
"I've programmed myself musically to come up with love-feeling tracks that are romantic, sexy, but classy, all in one. And that's the challenge. Once I create that music, then the lyrical content starts to come - you know, the stories and things like that." — R. Kelly
"Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs." — Seth Lloyd
"When strength is yoked with justice, where is a mightier pair than they?" — Aeschylus
"I'm not great at dating, but I need to do it to relax." — Lena Dunham
"I'm home schooled, and I have a teacher that goes with me on all my movies." — Dakota Fanning
"Although my dad was a doctor, we weren't necessarily a super-artsy family. We were just a classic, traditional family who got to take a lot of piano lessons and became a bunch of musicians." — Lisa Loeb
"I hope to have communion with the people, that is the most important thing." — Pope John Paul II
"Courage without conscience is a wild beast." — Robert Green Ingersoll
"I never rode in an automobile until I was 12." — Loretta Lynn
"There was a point - when I was a kid - where I said I wanted to be like Luke Skywalker, with blond hair and blue eyes. My mom right there told me to never be ashamed of who I am." — Chaske Spencer
"The only time some people work like a horse is when the boss rides them." — Gabriel Heatter
"The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too." — Samuel Butler
"A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts." — Harold MacMillan
"John Candy knew he was going to die. He told me on his 40th birthday. He said, well, Maureen, I'm on borrowed time." — Maureen O'Hara
"Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them." — Jean Paul
"Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for." — Edward F. Halifax
"Poetry is a mere drug, Sir." — George Farquhar
"The five different areas in which boys are in crisis - education jobs emotional health physical health and fatherlessness - are handled by different portions of the government." — Warren Farrell
"All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers." — Francois Fenelon
"Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced." — William Glasser
"Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know." — Charles Kingsley
"Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship." — James Russell Lowell
"Favored Nations is a long-term commitment. Our hope is that those who are passionate about real musicianship will want to hear and own most of our albums. We will set out to attain the same direct relationship with our customers that we have with our artists." — Steve Vai
"I try to keep a low profile in general. Not with my art, but just as a person." — Alanis Morissette
"Remote villages and communities have lost their identity, and their peace and charm have been sacrificed to that worst of abominations, the automobile." — James Norman Hall
"I am the granddaughter of a Welsh coal miner who was determined that his kids get out of the mines. My dad got his first job when he was six years old, in a little village in Wales called Nantyffyllon, cleaning bottles at the Colliers Arms." — Ann Romney
"The power of the harasser, the abuser, the rapist depends above all on the silence of women." — Ursula K. Le Guin
"I've met so many fans of daytime television who've watched the shows with their moms and grandmas and feel like they've known the characters their whole lives. It's sad for them to have to say goodbye to their favorite soaps and characters. We don't want that to happen to the 'Days' fans." — Alison Sweeney
"When there is state there can be no freedom, but when there is freedom there will be no state." — Vladimir Lenin
"The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed." — Henry Ford
"Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love." — Mason Cooley
"I hope we will not so characterize religious people as being so narrow and so biased towards people not of their own religion that they cannot even work with them in this common cause to which you say they are committed." — Barney Frank
"Our learning ought to be our lives' amendment, and the fruits of our private study ought to appear in our public behavior." — Thomas Nashe
"I did commit to myself that I would not jump back into being the workaholic that I can be before I gave myself an honest opportunity to create the marriage of my dreams and to create the beginning of the family of my dreams, and that took a hot second." — Alanis Morissette
"Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination do not become the slave of your model." — Vincent Van Gogh
"You know, I'm just not going to get into American politics." — Benjamin Netanyahu
"Even though money seems such an objective topic, it can also be the most intimate, and possibly harmful, part of a relationship." — Christie Hefner
"The mind controls so much of the body. We are much more than flesh and blood we are complex systems. Patients do better when they have faith that they're going to do better. That's why I always tell my patients and their families not to neglect their prayers. There's nobody I don't say that to." — Benjamin Carson
"I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I'm going to learn, I must do it by listening." — Larry King
"The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death." — Jim Morrison
"Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue." — James Buchan
"But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell." — Lascelles Abercrombie
"Ah, the bond between English boys and California girls. For those of us who aren't either, it's a bond that fascinates and mystifies. So much of the world's favorite music comes out of that relationship." — Rob Sheffield
"Success cannot come from standstill men. Methods change and men must change with them." — James Cash Penney
"For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something." — Steve Jobs
"Most schools have only a microwave or deep fryer, hardly the tools needed to feed our children real, fresh food." — Mark Hyman
"Mental illness is the last frontier. The gay thing is part of everyday life now on a show like 'Modern Family,' but mental illness is still full of stigma. Maybe it is time for that to change." — Eric McCormack
"I had to learn how to chop wood actually - I don't think my dad would have let me go chop wood in the backyard growing up." — Jennifer Lawrence
"Like everybody, I have invested in things that have gone bad, because there's never any guarantee of success or profit when it comes to money." — Murray Walker
"I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing it's not a western invention." — Garry Kasparov
"Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A meaningful life that ultimately brings happiness and pride requires you to respond to temptations as well as challenges with honor, dignity, and courage." — Laura Schlessinger
"In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get - The Future!" — Dan Quayle
"I try to speak of a love that not necessarily romantic. I think there is so much love between people and so much love people want to give but it's harder and harder these days to show that, to celebrate that, you know?" — Emeli Sande
"So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to each other. It produces a dialogue among people that guards all of us against manipulation by our so-called leaders." — June Jordan
"At home I'm just a guy who has interests that extend far beyond music." — Layne Staley
"When I heard the royal family wanted to have me perform in celebration of Prince William's marriage, I knew I had to give them a little something. 'Wet' is the perfect anthem for Prince William or any playa to get the club smokin'." — Snoop Dogg
"I never wore a tie voluntarily, even though I was forced to wear one for photos when I was young and for official events at school. I used to wrap my tie in a newspaper, and whenever the teacher checked I would quickly put it on again. I'm not used to it. Most Bolivians don't wear ties." — Evo Morales
"The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over." — Barry Commoner
"As a mom, I know it is my responsibility, and no one else's, to raise my kids. But we have to ask ourselves, what does it mean when so many parents are finding their best efforts undermined by an avalanche of advertisements aimed at our kids." — Michelle Obama
"Politics is very interesting and always leads to conflict." — Ridley Scott
"Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it." — Theodore Roosevelt
"She can't even chew gum and walk in a straight line, let alone write a book." — Liam Gallagher
"My Dad is my hero. He's 85 now and he is in great health. He is handsome and strong. He has an incredible moral and ethical backbone. I couldn't have been luckier with my parents." — Harry Connick, Jr.
"If I want to be alone, some place I can write, I can read, I can pray, I can cry, I can do whatever I want - I go to the bathroom." — Alicia Keys
"I'm a romantic, and we romantics are more sensitive to the way people feel. We love more, and we hurt more. When we're hurt, we hurt for a long time." — Freddy Fender
"The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road." — James Thurber
"Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength." — Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
"I'm not dead and I don't have blue hair but some people say there are similarities. It is usually intolerable to watch myself onscreen but this time it's fine. I think it's beautiful and a real work of art." — Helena Bonham Carter
"Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death." — Miguel de Unamuno
"As Prime Minister Netanyahu and Defense Minister Barak have repeatedly said, the intelligence and security relationship between the United States and Israel at present is unprecedented. It has never been stronger." — Susan Rice
"Too many problem-solving sessions become battlegrounds where decisions are made based on power rather than intelligence." — Margaret J. Wheatley
"When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars." — Vincent Van Gogh
"I think one of the things that language poets are very involved with is getting away from conventional ideas of beauty, because those ideas contain a certain attitude toward women, certain attitudes toward sex, certain attitudes toward race, etc." — Diane Wakoski
"Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable the principles of it are troublesome." — Benjamin Whichcote
"You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands - your own." — Mark Victor Hansen
"If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry." — O. Henry
"Human nature is not black and white but black and grey." — Graham Greene
"For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you'd would wake up times and hope that the next day you'd be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home." — LeBron James
"It's fun to have money, but the more money I get, the less interesting it becomes. If you don't have very much, you have to think about it. If you are starving, you become interested in food. If you are struggling to pay the bills, money becomes tragically important." — Sebastian Junger
"If God wanted us to bend over he'd put diamonds on the floor." — Joan Rivers
"Men have defined the parameters of every subject. All feminist arguments, however radical in intent or consequence, are with or against assertions or premises implicit in the male system, which is made credible or authentic by the power of men to name." — Andrea Dworkin
"Denmark needs change, Denmark needs to move on and Denmark needs my leadership." — Helle Thorning-Schmidt
"Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it." — Walter Pater
"To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success." — Orison Swett Marden
"Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself." — Khalil Gibran
"The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie." — Damon Albarn
"In college I never realized the opportunities available to a pro athlete. I've been given the chance to meet all kinds of people, to travel and expand my financial capabilities, to get ideas and learn about life, to create a world apart from basketball." — Michael Jordan
"You know, sex is actually not so original as the way people love or the stories behind each relationship, which is what you remember. Sex is sex in the end." — Jane Campion
"IN April 1882 my father died and I was at once whirled out of my land of dreams into a very different sphere." — Edward Carpenter
"No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does." — Christopher Morley
"Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child's tears, is child abuse, pure and simple. It's not funny and it's not good parenting. It is a crushing, scarring, disastrous experience for the child. It isn't the least bit funny." — Ben Stein
"Skyrocketing insurance premiums are debilitating our Nation's health care delivery system and liability insurers are either leaving the market or raising rates to excessive levels." — Jim Ryun
"A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference." — Thomas Jefferson
"The mindset of chasing that next #1 record doesn't exist for me anymore. It's more about being a well-rounded entertainer than being a pop artist. Obviously, it would be wonderful to have a hit record but I don't base my happiness on that anymore. It's about the accomplishment of a project that satisfies me. I just want to enjoy the ride." — Donny Osmond
"Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo." — Camille Paglia
"The question remains: which brands will commit to creating a private sector pillar of social change, and which will become casualties of their own outdated thinking?" — Simon Mainwaring
"Though we do need more women to graduate with technical degrees, I always like to remind women that you don't need to have science or technology degrees to build a career in tech." — Susan Wojcicki
"I like to read books and be alone I'm not social butterfly person." — Hope Solo
"When obedience to the Divine precepts keeps pace with knowledge, in the mind of any man, that man is a Christian and when the fruits of Christianity are produced, that man is a disciple of our blessed Lord, let his profession of religion be what it may." — Joseph Lancaster
"Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself." — Jeremy Taylor
"Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television." — Rita Mae Brown
"There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive." — Jessamyn West
"Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it." — Pope John Paul II
"I enjoy all forms of music - pop, classical and opera." — Stephen Hawking
"Food decisions - do I eat this or not? - are always going to be there." — Carnie Wilson
"I met my grandfather just before he died, and it was the first time that I had seen Dad with a relative of his. It was interesting to see my own father as a son and the body language and alteration in attitude that comes with that, and it sort of changed our relationship for the better." — Christian Bale
"It was an amazing performer. Very temperamental, it spent a lot of time in its trailer." — Tilda Swinton
"Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one? A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you." — Adlai E. Stevenson
"It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics." — Isaac Asimov
"Higher education is one of few areas where this country competes with the rest of the world and wins. The best of American higher education outstrips any in the world. Look where the rest of the world goes for higher education, for graduate degrees. They come here." — Donna Shalala
"Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past." — T. D. Jakes
"On my morning run, I listen to sports talk radio." — Lisa Guerrero
"Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music." — Paul McCartney
"I don't see myself as famous at all so I'm continuing my life as normal." — Ashley Madekwe
"I trust myself. You need that to survive." — Yoko Ono
"I was excited by what my painter friends were doing, and they seemed to be interested in our poetry too, and that was a wonderful little, fizzy sort of world." — Kenneth Koch
"Part of my growing up was always trying to make my parents proud and always trying to keep them happy. I think part of what held them together was my involvement in sports." — Jeff Garcia
"If you make the unconditional commitment to reach your most important goals, if the strength of your decision is sufficient, you will find the way and the power to achieve your goals." — Robert Conklin
"A lot of those little things that I really like doing are just moments of cool articulation, just little moments of phrasing that probably go over everybody's head." — Steve Vai
"It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams." — Les Brown
"People say, what is she thinking? I'm thinking: fun cash travel." — Gail Porter
"Success without honor is an unseasoned dish it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good." — Joe Paterno
"It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united." — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"I am a military police officer and I have served on two deployments my first was to Iraq, in a medical unit, and my second deployment was to Kuwait, as a military police platoon leader." — Tulsi Gabbard
"I married beneath me, all women do." — Nancy Astor
"The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men." — Bertrand Russell
"It's interesting when people make comments about celebrities' weight gain or lack of weight gain as if they're a medical professional that's treating that celebrity. Like, 'This doctor does not treat Jessica Simpson, but thinks her weight is unhealthy.' If you don't treat her, then how do you know?" — Busy Philipps
"Only bad golfers are lucky. They're the ones bouncing balls off trees, curbs, turtles and cars. Good golfers have bad luck. When you hit the ball straight, a funny bounce is bound to be unlucky." — Lee Trevino
"My mom sent me to regular high school because she wanted me to have that experience and not say that I missed out, but I didn't like it at all. I'm more comfortable in the world that I'm in, I grew up in it so when I get around normal kids in regular high school I don't know what to do. I feel more secure in an adult environment." — Alexa Vega
"An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all." — Paul Cezanne
"Your joys and sorrows. You can never tell them. You cheapen the inside of yourself if you do tell them." — Greta Garbo
"I'm learning a lot about myself being alone, and doing what I'm doing." — Chantal Kreviazuk
"To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often." — John Henry Newman
"I hear the way people talk about the children of famous people. They're not treated very well. The presumptions are usually quite awful. So I tried to establish myself with a couple of movies. After 'Juno' I thought: 'I think I've defined myself enough as my own director that I'd love to work with my father.'" — Jason Reitman
"Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him." — Marlene Dietrich
"I always have issues with trust." — Vin Diesel
"We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature." — Edmund Burke
"You define a good flight by negatives: you didn't get hijacked, you didn't crash, you didn't throw up, you weren't late, you weren't nauseated by the food. So you are grateful." — Paul Theroux
"How can smart women be so stupid about men sometimes? Lack of knowledge. It's what men have kept secret for so long." — Steve Harvey
"After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains." — Walt Whitman
"Memories are doing funny things to us." — Milos Forman
"A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader." — Daisaku Ikeda
"As a society, I think we express our cultural mores through our politics. We're trying constantly to figure out what's OK and what's not OK. And it's hard, because our society is constantly buffeted by gale force winds of technology. Things are always changing." — Daniel H. Wilson
"Cinema is entertainment, and people go to the movies because they want to feel good and forget about everything." — Vincent Cassel
"What is art? Nature concentrated." — Honore de Balzac
"You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to actually get happy." — John Mayer
"Gay people are the sweetest, kindest, most artistic, warmest and most thoughtful people in the world. And since the beginning of time all they've ever been is kicked." — Little Richard
"Being a part of SKECHERS is exciting. It is such a hip company with a great attitude and image." — Carrie Underwood
"But I don't want to be out there anymore I don't want people asking me about my health issues, about my kids. I choose not to be a public paparazzi girl on purpose." — Toni Braxton
"The work is challenging, interesting and an important part of our legal system." — David Minge
"Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth." — John F. Kennedy
"I've always shied away from conventional wisdom, though I know the power of it." — Peter Jennings
"These are important reforms. Infrastructure, education, health, hospitals, closing the gap with indigenous Australians. Also the Apology to the first Australians. As Prime Minister of the country I am proud of each and every one of these achievements." — Kevin Rudd
"The most important thing we can do is inspire young minds and to advance the kind of science, math and technology education that will help youngsters take us to the next phase of space travel." — John Glenn
"Every man over forty is a scoundrel." — George Bernard Shaw
"To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth." — Pearl S. Buck
"That someone like Obama could be elected president of the United States - with its unrivaled power and prestige - has begun to restore the country's and the world's faith in America as the land of opportunity." — Dee Dee Myers
"History is littered with wars which everybody knew would never happen." — Enoch Powell
"There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion." — Friedrich Nietzsche
"I think sometimes in life we want to ignore the problems of society and just think about the good. I believe in positive thinking and affirmative living, I also think it's really important to remember all of our disenfranchised members of society." — Kerry Washington
"The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays." — Soren Kierkegaard
"Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle." — George Washington
"I never thought of myself as like, a funny person." — Lena Dunham
"The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life." — Anna Letitia Barbauld
"The power to define the situation is the ultimate power." — Jerry Rubin
"Guilt is anger directed at ourselves - at what we did or did not do. Resentment is anger directed at others - at what they did or did not do." — Peter McWilliams
"In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the forces of nature than the ancients ascribed to their gods." — John Boyd Orr
"I hope in my lifetime we can all continue to laugh at ourselves and not put down anyone for what they weigh." — Richard Simmons
"And on the other hand, we see that the Israeli government is attacking that part of the Palestinian leader." — Rafik Hariri
"Obviously the first sentiment is disappointment that we didn't get the car home and more disappointment that at the time that it stopped the car was in the lead." — John Surtees
"Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps." — Emo Philips